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German Coast

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The German Coast (French: Côte des Allemands, Spanish: Costa Alemana, German: Deutsche Küste) was a region of early Louisiana settlement located above New Orleans, and on the west bank of the Mississippi River. [1]

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  1. 60 relations: Acadiana, Acadians, Accordion, Alsace–Lorraine, American Revolutionary War, Antonio de Ulloa, Baden-Württemberg, Battle at The Village, Battle of Baton Rouge (1779), Bavaria, Bayou, Belgium, Bernardo de Gálvez, Brittany (administrative region), Cajun music, Calque, Capture of Fort Bute, Charles Deslondes, Charles Frederick d'Arensbourg, Europe, Fort Maurepas, France, French language, French people, German Americans, German Coast, Orleans Territory, History of slavery in Louisiana, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, Jean-Pierre Pury, John Law (economist), Kingdom of Great Britain, Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Salvador, Lorient, Louisiana, Louisiana (New France), Louisiana Purchase, Louisiana Rebellion of 1768, Lucy, Louisiana, Luis de Unzaga, Macaronic language, Mississippi Company, Mississippi River, New Orleans, Pirogue, Region, Rhineland, River Parishes, Schexnayder, Siege of Pensacola, ... Expand index (10 more) »

  2. Belgian-American history
  3. Cajun
  4. German-American culture in Louisiana
  5. Pre-statehood history of Louisiana
  6. Regions of Louisiana
  7. Swiss-American history

Acadiana

Acadiana (French and Louisiana French: L'Acadiane), also known as the Cajun Country (Louisiana French: Le Pays Cadjin, País Cajún), is the official name given to the French Louisiana region that has historically contained much of the state's Francophone population. German Coast and Acadiana are Cajun and regions of Louisiana.

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Acadians

The Acadians (Acadiens) are an ethnic group descended from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).

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Alsace–Lorraine

Alsace–Lorraine (German: Elsaß–Lothringen), officially the Imperial Territory of Alsace–Lorraine (Reichsland Elsaß–Lothringen), was a former territory of the German Empire, located in modern day France.

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American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Antonio de Ulloa

Antonio de Ulloa (12 January 1716 – 3 July 1795) was a Spanish naval officer, scientist, and administrator.

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Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg, commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France.

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Battle at The Village

The Battle at The Village, also known as the Second Battle of Mobile, fought on January 7, 1781, was a failed British attempt to recapture a Spanish fortification at "The Village," during the American Revolutionary War.

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Battle of Baton Rouge (1779)

The Battle of Baton Rouge was a brief siege during the Anglo-Spanish War that was decided on September 21, 1779.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Bayou

In usage in the Southern United States, a bayou is a body of water typically found in a flat, low-lying area.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Bernardo de Gálvez

Bernardo Vicente de Gálvez y Madrid, 1st Count of Gálvez (23 July 1746 – 30 November 1786) was a Spanish military leader and government official who served as colonial governor of Spanish Louisiana and Cuba, and later as Viceroy of New Spain.

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Brittany (administrative region)

Brittany (Bretagne; Breizh; Gallo: Bertaèyn) is the westernmost region of Metropolitan France.

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Cajun music

Cajun music (Musique cadienne), an emblematic music of Louisiana played by the Cajuns, is rooted in the ballads of the French-speaking Acadians of Canada.

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Calque

In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation.

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Capture of Fort Bute

The Capture of Fort Bute signalled the opening of Spanish intervention in the American Revolutionary War on the side of France and the United States.

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Charles Deslondes

Charles Deslondes (– January 11, 1811) was an African American revolutionary who was one of the leaders in the 1811 German Coast uprising, a slave revolt that began on January 8, 1811, in the Territory of Orleans.

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Charles Frederick d'Arensbourg

Charles Frederic d’Arensbourg (sometimes written D’Arensbourg or Darensbourg) (1693–1777), born Carl Friedrich Arensburg, was an early leader in the settlement of the German Coast region of Louisiana.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Fort Maurepas

Fort Maurepas, later known as Old Biloxi, was developed in colonial French Louisiana (New France) in April 1699 along the Gulf of Mexico (at present-day Ocean Springs, Mississippi).

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French people

The French people (lit) are a nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France.

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German Americans

German Americans (Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.

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German Coast, Orleans Territory

German Coast Parish, Orleans Territory was a former parish (county) of Louisiana that existed from April 10, 1805, until April 14, 1807, during the U.S. territorial, pre-statehood period.

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History of slavery in Louisiana

Following Robert Cavelier de La Salle establishing the French claim to the territory and the introduction of the name Louisiana, the first settlements in the southernmost portion of Louisiana (New France) were developed at present-day Biloxi (1699), Mobile (1702), Natchitoches (1714), and New Orleans (1718).

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Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (February 23, 1680 – March 7, 1767), also known as Sieur de Bienville, was a French-Canadian colonial administrator in New France.

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Jean-Pierre Pury

Jean-Pierre Pury (1675 – 1736) was an explorer, geographer and colonist from the Principality of Neuchâtel, a Prussian principality in modern-day Switzerland.

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John Law (economist)

John Law (pronounced in French in the traditional approximation of Laws, the colloquial Scottish form of the name; 21 April 1671 – 21 March 1729) was a Scottish-French economist who distinguished money, a means of exchange, from national wealth dependent on trade.

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Kingdom of Great Britain

The Kingdom of Great Britain was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800.

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Lake Pontchartrain

Lake Pontchartrain is an estuary located in southeastern Louisiana in the United States.

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Lake Salvador

Lake Salvador (Lac Salvador) is a lake about southwest of New Orleans, Louisiana, in Jefferson, Lafourche, and St. Charles parishes.

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Lorient

Lorient is a town (commune) and seaport in the Morbihan department of Brittany in western France.

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Louisiana

Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.

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Louisiana (New France)

Louisiana (Louisiane) or French Louisiana (Louisiane française) was an administrative district of New France. German Coast and Louisiana (New France) are pre-statehood history of Louisiana.

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Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase (translation) was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. German Coast and Louisiana Purchase are pre-statehood history of Louisiana.

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Louisiana Rebellion of 1768

The Rebellion of 1768, also known as the Revolt of 1768 or the Creole Revolt, was an unsuccessful attempt by the Creole elite of New Orleans, along with nearby German settlers, to reverse the transfer of the French Louisiana Territory to Spain, as had been stipulated in the 1762 Treaty of Fontainebleau. German Coast and Louisiana Rebellion of 1768 are German-American culture in Louisiana.

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Lucy, Louisiana

Lucy is an unincorporated community in St. John the Baptist Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Luis de Unzaga

Luis de Unzaga y Amézaga (1717–1793), also known as Louis Unzaga y Amezéga le Conciliateur, Luigi de Unzaga Panizza and Lewis de Onzaga, was governor of Spanish Louisiana from late 1769 to mid-1777, as well as a Captain General of Venezuela from 1777 to 1782 and Cuba from 1782 to 1785.

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Macaronic language

Macaronic language is any expression using a mixture of languages, particularly bilingual puns or situations in which the languages are otherwise used in the same context (rather than simply discrete segments of a text being in different languages).

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Mississippi Company

The Mississippi Company (Compagnie du Mississippi; founded 1684, named the Company of the West from 1717, and the Company of the Indies from 1719) was a corporation holding a business monopoly in French colonies in North America and the West Indies. German Coast and Mississippi Company are pre-statehood history of Louisiana.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Pirogue

A pirogue, also called a piragua or piraga, is any of various small boats, particularly dugouts and native canoes. German Coast and pirogue are Cajun.

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Region

In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography).

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Rhineland

The Rhineland (Rheinland; Rhénanie; Rijnland; Rhingland; Latinised name: Rhenania) is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section.

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River Parishes

The River Parishes are those parishes in Louisiana between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that span both banks of the Mississippi River, and are part of the larger Acadiana region. German Coast and River Parishes are Acadiana.

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Schexnayder

Schexnayder is a German surname, probably deriving from an occupational name for a maker of jackets and jerkins.

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Siege of Pensacola

The siege of Pensacola, fought from March 9 to May 10, 1781, was the culmination of Spain's conquest of West Florida during the Gulf Coast Campaign of the American Revolutionary War.

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St. Charles Parish, Louisiana

St. German Coast and St. Charles Parish, Louisiana are Acadiana.

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St. James Parish, Louisiana

St. German Coast and St. James Parish, Louisiana are Acadiana.

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St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana

St. German Coast and St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana are Acadiana.

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Summary execution

In civil and military jurisprudence, summary execution is the putting to death of a person accused of a crime without the benefit of a free and fair trial.

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Swedish Pomerania

Swedish Pomerania (Svenska Pommern; Schwedisch-Pommern) was a dominion under the Swedish Crown from 1630 to 1815 on what is now the Baltic coast of Germany and Poland.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Taft, Louisiana

Taft is a census-designated place (CDP) in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States, located on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

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Territory of Orleans

The Territory of Orleans or Orleans Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from October 1, 1804, until April 30, 1812, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Louisiana. German Coast and territory of Orleans are pre-statehood history of Louisiana.

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Whitney Plantation Historic District

The Whitney Plantation Historic District is preserved by the Whitney Institute, a non-profit whose mission is to educate the public about the history and legacies of slavery in the Southern United States.

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1811 German Coast uprising

The 1811 German Coast uprising was a slave rebellion which occurred in the Territory of Orleans from January 8–10, 1811. German Coast and 1811 German Coast uprising are pre-statehood history of Louisiana.

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See also

Belgian-American history

Cajun

German-American culture in Louisiana

Pre-statehood history of Louisiana

Regions of Louisiana

Swiss-American history

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Coast

Also known as Augsburg, Louisiana, Hoffen, Louisiana, Hoffen,Louisiana!, Karlstein, Louisiana, Marienthal, Louisiana.

, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, St. James Parish, Louisiana, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, Summary execution, Swedish Pomerania, Switzerland, Taft, Louisiana, Territory of Orleans, Whitney Plantation Historic District, 1811 German Coast uprising.